Books in the The Clinics: Internal Medicine series

Schools can play an important role in addressing the unmet mental health needs of youth by potentially increasing access to care in a cost-effective manner. This title provides an analysis of the types of situations in which schools can and must address the mental health needs of their students, and the methodology for doing so.

Educates gastroenterologists about how to adapt to health care reform. This title discusses specific issues such as: Gastroenterologists and Accountable Care Organizations; Health Information Technology and the Gastroenterologist; Transitioning from Fellowship to Practice 2012; Going Big in Private Practice; and, more.

Features 14 articles on conditions such as epilepsy, headache, visual loss, nervous system infections, ischemic stroke, head and spinal cord injury, and intracranial hemorrhage.

Reviews bronchiectasis from numerous angles. This book discusses epidemiology, airway defense mechanisms, pathogenesis, imaging and genetic causes of bronchiectasis. It also addresses allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, as well as non-tuberculous mycobacteria as a cause of bronchiectasis.

Tropical diseases pose an increasing problem for US and international travellers who travel to tropical regions. This title includes topics such as range/classification of tropical diseases, venomous bites and stings, malaria, and bacterial gastrointestinal infections.

Provides updates in heart failure. In this title, the following topics are covered: epidemiology, pathophysiology, and general approach for heart failure; symptoms, signs, diagnostic studies, and prognostic significance of systolic versus diastolic heart failure; and the appropriate use of biomarkers.

Focuses on Gynecologic Oncology. This title covers Vulvar/Vaginal, cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancer along with early detection and screening, and genetics and hereditary risk.

Covers important topics in pediatric urology. This title also covers the following topics: Prenatal Ultrasound and Urological Anomalies, Spina Bifida and Neurogenic Bladder, Inguinal and Genital Anomalies, Voiding Dysfunction, Vesicoureteral Reflux, Hydronephrosis, Urolithiasis in Children, and Circumcision Controversies.

Offers coverage on fetal surgery. This title covers such topics as: fetal cardiac intervention, abdominal wall defects, NEC, esophageal atresia, and spinia bifida. It provides the clinical basics, like general concepts of fetal surgery, looking at CDH in utero, CDH post natal, ECMO/placenta, stem cell, and anorectal malformations.

Looks at addiction psychiatry in three sections: Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and New Directions. This title discusses a variety of addiction types (that is: opioid, stimulant, and cannabis). It closes with discussions of emerging trends, systems of care, investigational therapeutics and the role of the criminal justice system.

Excessive Sleepiness, or hypersomnia, is one of the most common sleep complaints. This title brings together a set of articles that offer an overview of hypersomnia, from neurophysiology of sleepiness and wakefulness to quality of life issues and public health. It focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of hypersomnia.

Presents clinically accessible information for pathologists on histology, molecular pathology, differential diagnosis, and clinical overview. This title covers such topics as: Less common variants and mimics of DCIS; Invasive lobular carcinoma and its variants; Important inflammatory and reactive lesions; and, Small glandular proliferations.

Focuses on methods of diagnosing and evaluating IBD to help guide optimal treatment to maximize clinical outcomes and minimize risks. This title deals with endoscopy: its role in diagnosis and monitoring IBD; the importance of chromoendoscopy in IBD surveillance exams; assessment of post-operative recurrence; and, the role of capsule endoscopy.

More than half a million babies in the US are born prematurely every year - preterm birth is the leading cause of infant mortality and those who survive may face lifelong problems. This title discusses the epidemiology, outcomes and clinical prediction of preterm birth, and offers information on various therapies.

Provides a comprehensive treatise on "Travel Medicine". This book is extremely important that physicians be aware of the spectrum of tropical, infectious and parasitic diseases their patients may have been exposed to while traveling abroad.

Reviews the basic collaborative model, that is collaboration among ob/gyns, midwives, and family physicians. This title includes articles on successful birth center practice, secrets to a successful collaboration, and collaboration in the environment.

Focuses on Asthma. This book includes topics such as: Compliance; Epidemics in asthma; Genotypes of asthma; diagnose and phenotype asthma; Unbiased biomarkers in asthma; Asthma as a chronic infectious disease; Childhood Asthma Management; Occupational Asthma; Corticosteroid Treatments; Airway Smooth Muscle; and Resolution of Inflammation.

Provides the overviews of the present state of knowledge on the epidemiology, early clinical characteristics, and diagnostic changes, proposed pathogenesis, neurobiology, and treatment requirements for this disorder. This book includes the Nosology of Schizophrenia: Defining Illness Boundaries Based upon Symptoms.

Focuses on the burden of low back pain from diagnosis to treatment options and prevention with topics that include: surgical intervention, disability and low back pain: evaluation and determination, complementary and alternative medicine treatments, and interventional and non-interventional treatment of low back pain.

Helps scientists to better understand how the human body carries out normal functions that are key to maintaining health. This title includes the following topics; Progress in Clinical Toxicology Testing, The Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic, Substance Abuse Among Healthcare Professionals, Pain Management Drug Testing, and Ethanol Biomarkers.

Chronic overconsumption of sugar and fat elevates plasma levels of insulin and free fatty acids, a process referred to as glucolipotoxicity. This book explores the relationship between glucolipotoxicity and heart failure.

Providing coverage of the clinical diagnosis, treatment, and management of Celiac Disease, this book includes topics: Clinical presentation of Celiac Disease in Adults and Children; The Irritable Bowel Syndrome - Celiac Disease Connection; Pathophysiology of Celiac Disease; Diagnosis of Celiac Disease; and Histopathology in Celiac Disease.

Includes topics related to Psychopharmacology issues: Ethical issues, Treatment planning, Side effects, Neural correlates, and Pharmacogenomics. This book addresses Anxiety, Depression, Eating disorders, Sleep disorders, Psychosis and Schizophrenia, High-risk for bilpolar and schizophrenia, Bipolar, ADHD, and Autism.

Examines Evidence Based Practices on topics of critical importance to otolaryngologists-head and neck surgeons. This book includes topics that cover evidence-based practice of: Management of Vertigo, Management of Adult Sensory Neural Hearing Loss, Cochlear Implantation, Reflux in Sinusitus, and Balloon Dilation in Otolaryngology.

Provides essential updates on COPD. This title covers such topics as: pathobiological mechanisms; genes and the disease (alpha-l-antitrypsin); the environment, phenotype, and comorbidity; the role and potential of imaging; pulmonary function and its importance; exercise in testing and therapy; and, more.

Includes Infertility Evaluation, Ovulation Induction, and problems such as fibroids, endometriosis, and ectopic pregnancy.

Focuses on Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases, with article topics including: asthma, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and other immune-mediated lung disease; Work-exacerbated asthma; and Occupational COPD.

Focuses with a few articles addressing the business and practice of patient safety. This book includes topics such as: Developing performance standards and expectations for safety; The role of CPOE in patient safety; The role of smart infusion pumps on patient safety; and Abstracted detection of adverse events in children.

Information on office-based procedures in laryngology that provides Otolaryngologists and other surgeons information on Patient selection, and Risks and complications. This book includes topics such as: Anesthesia for office procedures including the role of monitoring, Stroboscopy and other diagnostic tools including high speed larygoscopy.